simonnicol

I’m a bit suspicious of my PHP install. This is a newly installed server by me but the PHP non-thred-safe install was one of those automatic ones – which I’m a bit suspicious of, so I think I’ll uninstall and configure PHP manually…

Thanks for your time, will post back the results…

Thanks esmi & shane for your replies.

I took the server offline for a while and removed the HDD to do a complete virus scan – just in case that might have caused the problem but it came up completely clean.

So far I have this:

Totally new install of WP 2.9.1
Completely empty database.

Using default theme.
No added themes
No added plugins
No active plugins

I modify wp-config-sample.php with details for my database and add the unique keys.

I go to mydomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

I enter the blog title and my email address, then using the generated password I login… all good so far.

I then go to Appearance > Widgets… and find I can drag n’ drop anything.

This is the same for IE8 and FF 3.6

Javascript is enabled in both browsers.

Everything I’m using…

Windows 2008 Web Server
IIS7
PHP 5.2.12
MySQL 5.1
Firefox 3.6
IE8

I have other WP installs on this same server and I have the same problem with all of them – i’m certain the widgets for these sites used to work (drag n’ drop) but now they don’t.

@esmi if you need to contact me through regular email, I can set up another test install on a different domain name and send you the login details…

I really don’t get what’s happening here…

I’ve put a conpletely fresh copy of WP 2.9.1 on my server. No plugins whatsoever, no themes, empty database – nothing at all

I go to the Widgets page and find I can’t drag n’ drop anything…
This is for both Firefox 3.6 and IE 8.

I don’t know if I’m missing something obvious, but so far I’m not really sure what conclusions to draw…

@esmi

Have re-downloaded WP 2.9.1 from www.ads-software.com and copies up super fresh files/folders wp-admin and wp-includes…

Still using WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann, I drag n’ drop ‘any’ widget and still got the same “wpCompressionTest Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…

However! I dragged over another Widget and the controls came up OK, now every widget I drag over (using the default theme) works fine!

It’s very odd whatever is happening.

Thanks for your replies Esmi

No need to wait.

Widgets became drag n’ droppable after a waiting of not-very-long-at-all < (1 min), but now which ever widget I drag over Pages/Arcives/Recent Posts/Calendar I get this exact Ipsum text displayed in every Widget:

“wpCompressionTest Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer mollis sapien urna ut a. Eu nonummy condimentum fringilla tempor pretium platea vel nibh netus Maecenas. Hac molestie amet justo quis pellentesque est ultrices interdum nibh Morbi. Cras mattis pretium Phasellus ante ipsum ipsum ut sociis Suspendisse Lorem. Ante et non molestie. Porta urna Vestibulum egestas id congue nibh eu risus gravida sit. Ac augue auctor Ut et non a elit massa id sodales. Elit eu Nulla at nibh adipiscing mattis lacus mauris at tempus. Netus nibh quis suscipit nec feugiat eget sed lorem et urna. Pellentesque lacus at ut massa consectetuer ligula ut auctor semper Pellentesque. Ut metus massa nibh quam Curabitur molestie nec mauris congue. Volutpat molestie elit justo facilisis neque ac risus Ut nascetur tristique. Vitae sit lorem tellus et quis Phasellus lacus tincidunt nunc Fusce. Pharetra wisi Suspendisse mus sagittis libero lacinia Integer consequat ac Phasellus. Et urna ac cursus tortor aliquam Aliquam amet tellus volutpat Vestibulum. Justo interdum condimentum In augue congue tellus sollicitudin Quisque quis nibh.”

Ah!

Same problem. I’ve switched to the WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann, but same problem.

Some of the Widgets that belong to the other theme are no longer displayed (as expected), but on trying to drag n’ drop any widget over to the bar on the right doesn’t work.

I’ll give it my ‘take a bath and have a cup of tea’ approach. Firefox is not draining any more than 1-2% CPU, so I don’t suspect it’s a JavaScript issue, but then CPU powere isn’t being drained on my server either….

I’ll try my ‘out to lunch’ *fix* approach and report back in a while…

I will give that a go and report back.

Many thanks Esmi.

@esmi

Sure thing. I’m a web designer. Just working on a brand new install of 2.9.1 for a client, with no active (or installed) plugins whatsoever.

I am using a theme by RocketTheme which requires widgets in various places, but initially they wouldn’t drag n’ drop. Then they would drag n’ drop but wouldn’t save.

I have RocketTheme on the job just incase it is a problem with their theme (quite possible) but they did ask me which version of PHP I was using, so just for the record:

WordPress 2.9.1
PHP 5.2.12
MySQL 5.1
Firefox 3.6

There is a solution to this problem.

It’s the wierdest bug you can imagine – LOL. It’s got to do with the JavaScript engine. FF is faster than IE at running JS which is why it seems to affect FF less than IE…

This definately needs to be reported as a bug – no kidding.

Here’s how to fix it.

https://www.caspianit.co.uk/wordpress-widgets-not-saving-or-dragging/

Same problem here. WordPress 2.9.1 however neither FF or IE will work. No widgets save – none at all….

I fairly sure that it could take several days if not months before anyone reads this post, but I must admit to being amazed that this is not more of a concern.

Anyone who has use https://webpagetest.org to test the speed of their website will be only to aware where the bottlenecks are in delivering their website.

The most important concerns in optimising a site (after all the basics have been done with configuring the web server itself) is to reduce as much as possible the number of http requests.

Embedding your images within the payload of the HTML page itself is probably one of the most effective ways you can increase your site speed.

I have at least doubled the amount of traffic to my site – just because of optimisation. Through optimisation I have managed to get my pages loading 5 times faster and I recon with embeding all my images within each page using the command <img src=”data:image/png;… I will be able to double the speed again.

I know there are a number of caching programs like w3 total cache for Apache, but none of them include this functionality…

Does anyone know if I’m wrong? Dose a plugin like this exist??

To optimise your website’s server have a look at:

https://www.caspianit.co.uk/iis6-website-optimisation-for-webpagetest-org

@stvwlf

Well it should do, but there’s been this bug with the All-in-One SEO for ages. Even though AIO-SEO has been updated once every other week the bug remains.

It *might* be a theme problem but I don’t think so. I think AIO-SEO went a bit wonkey at WordPress 2.8.1

There’s a better alternative I’ve found called META SEO.

Just checkin’ back to see if anything had been posted. It feels like a desolate wasteland around here – maybe I’m just talking to myself?

(tumble weed blows in distance)…(sound of rusty cow bell clanging)

Hummm… will check back in a few more days (if I haven’t died of dehydration/sun burn) Ahhh… I must stop reading movie scripts!

Sweet plugin!

I have the same issue tho’ with “Database caching is not available. Memcached server localhost:11211 is not running or is non-responsive.”

From what I can tell all these functions are for Linux / Apache.

I’m running IIS6.0, I have full control of my server (which already has Gzip enabled,ETags removed and a far-in-the-future date for page expiry – can you suggest a way I can get round this problem?

Sci-Fi Si

It looks as though there’s a problem with the plugin.

Have a look here:

https://caspianit.co.uk/all-in-one-seo-post_title